Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-05-19
BA, BA, BLACK SHEEP.
The Wool Growers OF Eastern
Montana have a well Attended
Annual Meeting.
A Series of Resolutions Adopted
Among Them Being an Un-
qualified Endorsement OF
The Interstate Commerce Reg
ulations-Ofhcers Electedfor
the Ensuing Year.
WOOL GROWERS

WOOL GROWERS
or Eastern Montana Meet In Annual ses-
sion-Important business and Long
Winded Resolutions Adopted-A Salts
factory Meeting.
The Wool Growers Association of
Eastern Montana held its annual
meeting in Miles City yesterday after.
noon, May 18th, in the parlors Of the
Maequeen hotel. Meeting was called
to order by the president, George w.
Myers. In the absence of the secre-
tary j. II. Locke was appointed secre-
tary pro tenn. The minutes of the
previous meeting were read and
adopted. Josiah Nichols, Of Etchetah,
was elected president for the ensuing
year, and ]. III. Locke, of Terry, secre-
taTy, who shall also act as treasurer.
John Barringer and A. NJ. Cree were
elected vice presidents.
Interesting remarks were made by
George w. Myers aud A. NJ. Cree on
feed and shelter, the future Of sheep
growing in Montana, profess onsl
sheep herders, etc. Mr.. Myers said
after going through the past winter
he had greater confidence in Montana
~ a stock country than ever, seeing
what stock can stand and what can be
done " hen care in the way OF feed and
shelter has been given. A. NJ. Cree
made a few remarks on the "profes-
sional" sheep herder. "When a man
gets so low that he is unfit for every.
thing else and turned off by everyone
he sets himself up to be professions al
sheep herder." J. A. McGregor, agent
for the Minnesota d Northwestern
railroad, J. W. Putnam, of the Mon
tans Live Stock Journal, and Geo. II.
Scott, of the YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL,
were elected honorary members of the
association. The chair appointed rs
an executive committee G.. w. Myers,
Oscar Bracket, Kent McLain, A. NJ.
Cree and Cha. Daily. q. w, Myers.
A. NJ. Cree and j. II. Locke were sp-
pointed committe on resolutions,
who reported the following:
Whereas, In the matter Of the inter.
state commerce law the carrying of
freight from terminal or competing
points at cost or less than cost renders
all over charge necessary for other
points; therefore we believe the long
and short haul clause of the interstate
commerce law right and just and We
believe that it should be enforced; and
Whereas, As 1t costs no more to
operate road since the passage OF the
law than before, and
Whereas, As the roads a. yet have
failed to compensate for their increased
long haul rates by sufficiently reduced
short haul rates,
Therefore we telieve that judgment
in regard To the benefits TO he derived
from the law be suspended until such
time ~ the roads comply with the law
to its full extent.
Whereas. Immense quantities oi
Russian woods rs clean as our best
secured woods have been fraudulently
entered at the low tariff rates OF
wa.hed woods, and,
Whereas, Million. Of pounds oI
clothing woods have been admitted al
very low duty as carpet wools, and
Whereas. Worsted goods have been
imported in great quantities at low
rate under the absurd ruling that they
are not woolens, and,
Whereas, Manufactured goods ar,
admitted at low rate under the nam,
Of waste, +" "tops," " etc, and,
Whereas, Under the abominablt
rulings domestic production and man
ufacture of wool has fallen of unit
last year there was more than half a,
much foreign wool In the msnufac
tured and raw state used in this coun
try as there was OF domestic WOO
grown, and,
Whereas, These results arise from
department rulings In favor OF i'm
porters and contrary to the spirit Il
not the very letter Of our tariff laws,
Therefore be IL
Resolved, That we appeal to the
people of this country to demand oi
the executive that 1t shall live up to
the laws Of the land and the platform
on which 1t was elected, and also
Be IL resolved, That we believe Con-
gress should define by law what per-
centage of foreign matter constitutes
in wool that which should be called
washed and that which should be called
n u a.